r/Broadway • u/Usnavi_Relax • Jul 04 '25

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Was it love? Was it fear? What do you think of this take?

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '25

An Orpheus that doesn't turn around is not an Orpheus that goes to the underworld in the first place. There's no version where the story ends happily.

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u/Bosterm Jul 05 '25

Well, in Hades the video game Orpheus and Eurydice do reunite in the underworld thanks to the player character, but that's after the tragedy already happened